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In 1973, SPICE was introduced to the world by Professor Donald O. Pederson of the University of California at Berkeley, and a new era of computer-aided design (CAD) tools was born. As its name implies, SPICE is a "Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis." You give it a description of an electrical circuit, made up of resistors, capacitors, inductors, and power sources, and SPICE will predict the performance of that circuit. Instead of bread-boarding new designs in the lab, circuit designers found they could optimize their designs on computers–in effect, using computers to build better computers. Since its introduction, SPICE has been commercialized and released in a dozen variants, such as H-SPICE, P-SPICE, and ADVICE.

Learn more about circuit simulation from the resources on this site, listed below. You might even acquire a taste for SPICE by running examples online.

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  1. Delta-Wye

    17 Apr 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Robert Benjamin Post, Stella Quinones

    Convert from Delta to Wye configuration for resistances, and vice versa.

  2. Multimeter

    10 Feb 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Jose Ochoa, Stella Quinones

    Understand the correct procedure for measuring voltage (V) and current (I), and observe the dependence between the interchange of the leads and the sign of the numerical reading.

  3. Circuit Elements

    17 Feb 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Emmanuel Jose Ochoa, Stella Quinones

    Understand the dependence of resistance, R, inductance, L, and capacitance, C, on physical dimensions and material properties.

  4. Resistor Color Code

    10 Feb 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Robert Benjamin Post, Stella Quinones

    Apply the color code to determine the resistance value of a resistor or input a resistance value and determine the color code of the resistor.

  5. A methodology for SPICE-compatible modeling of nanoMOSFETs

    17 Nov 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Alba Graciela Avila, David Espejo

    An original SPICE-compatible model for Intel's 45nm High-K MOSFET is presented. It takes into account some Quantum-Mechanical Effects that occur at small scale like Channel Length Modulation (CLM), Threshold Voltage variation and Velocity saturation, and is the first in his class that is not...

  6. Transformative Power Semiconductor Technologies to Impact 21st Century Energy Economy, and Space and Defense Electronics

    19 Jul 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Krishna Shenai

    This talk will focus on advanced power semiconductor materials, devices, circuits and systems that are needed in order to address this daunting challenge. Specifically we will discuss emerging silicon and wide bandgap materials and power devices, heterogeneous chip-scale power integration,...

  7. NanoV: Nanowire-based VLSI Design

    06 Sep 2010 | | Contributor(s):: muzaffer simsir

    In the coming decade, CMOS technology is expected to approach its scaling limitations. Among the proposed nanotechnologies, nanowires have the edge in the size of circuits and logic arrays that have already been fabricated and experimentally evaluated. For this technology, logic-level design...

  8. Metal Oxide Nanowires as Gas Sensing Elements: from Basic Research to Real World Applications

    21 Sep 2009 | | Contributor(s):: andrei kolmakov

    Quasi 1-D metal oxide single crystal chemiresistors are close to occupy their specific niche in the real world of solid state sensorics. Potentially, the major advantage of this kind of sensors with respect to available granular thin film sensors will be their size and stable, reproducible and...

  9. Feras Al-Dirini

    Feras Al-Dirini (Member, IEEE) recieved the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electronics engineering from Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Jordan, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and...

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  10. MCW07 Exploring Trends in Conductance for Well-Defined Single Molecule Circuits

    04 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Mark S Hybertsen

    In our recent research, we have been able to measure and characterize the impact of intrinsic molecular properties on the conductance of single molecule circuits formed with amine-gold linkages. In this talk, I will review the experiments and the physical picture of the junction based on the...

  11. Quantitative, Kinetic Models of Cellular Circuits

    04 Apr 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Michael R. Brent

    Living cells contain complex, analog circuits that regulate the rate at which each gene produces its product. The kinetic properties of these circuits enable cells to respond to changes in their environments and thus to survive, reproduce, and compete. For decades, molecular biologists have been...

  12. Energy and Nanoscience A More Perfect Union

    29 Mar 2009 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Ratner

    Huge problems of energy and sustainability confront the science/engineering community, mankind, and our planet. The energy problem comes in many dimensions, including supply, demand, conservation, transportation, and storage. This overview will stress the nature of these problems, and offer a few...

  13. ECE 612 Lecture 22: CMOS Circuit Essentials

    24 Nov 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    Outline: 1) The CMOS inverter,2) Speed,3) Power,4) Circuit performance,5) Metrics,6) Limits.This lecture is an overview of CMOS circuits. For a more detailed presentation, the following lectures from the Fall 2006 teaching of this course should be viewed:Lecture 24: CMOS Circuits, Part I (Fall...

  14. a TCAD Lab

    29 Oct 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska

    An Assembly of TCAD tools for circuit, device, and process simulation

  15. Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions

    31 Mar 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Wei Wang

    CMOS-nano hybrid technology incorporate the advantages of both traditional CMOS and novel nanowire/nanotube structures, which will enhance future IC performances and create long-term breakthroughs. The CMOS-nano hybrid IC can be efficiently fabricated using the 3D integration approach. This talk...

  16. Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowires and Nanocircuits

    04 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Virginia M. Ayres

    Catalyst-free vapor-solid nanowire growth, a newly described method for the production of nanowires compatible with a wide variety of semiconductor materials, has been used to produce novel multiphase zinc-blende/wurtzite gallium nitride nanowires. Orientation relation-ships within the multiphase...

  17. Reed-Muller Reversible Logic Synthesizer (RMRLS) 0.2

    04 Jan 2008 | | Contributor(s):: James Donald, Pallav Gupta

    Reed-Muller Reversible Logic Synthesis tool (a.k.a. RELOS) is a tool for the synthesis of reversible functions based on positive-polarity Reed-Muller expressions. The second release of RMRLS features reversible logic synthesis with SWAP, Fredkin, and Peres gates. This work was done under the...

  18. New Dimension in Performance: Harnessing 3D Integration Technology

    29 Nov 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Kerry Bernstein

    Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips have remained essentially 2-dimensional. Improvements in on-chip wire delay, and in the total number of inputs and outputs has not been able to keep up with improvements to the transistor, and its getting harder and harder to hide it! 3D...

  19. On the Rise of an Electronic Species: Thoughts on the Impending Singularity

    29 Nov 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Kerry Bernstein

    The human brain is vastly more complex that our best supercomputers; yet it can be argued that both systems evolve towards common underlying solutions to fundamental compute problems. Biologically-inspired electronic technologies already are enabling new products, and inversely, nano-electronics...

  20. ThrEshold Logic Synthesizer (TELS) and Majority Logic Synthezier (MALS)

    09 Oct 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Pallav Gupta

    TELS and MALS are threshold and majority/minority logic synthesis tools that were developed by Rui Zhang and Pallav Gupta under the supervision of Prof. Niraj K. Jha of Princeton University. Dr. Lin Zhong, of Rice University, was also a contributor.Both of these tools have been integrated into...